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I have! I think I got as far as the arc where she figures out she can use the sword as a hoverboard and do sick aerial stunts

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I got grilled mackerel out of a train station vending machine once. Anyway, yes that’s absolutely a class specialisation

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I’ve been reading Mazumeshi Elf and it very much does “guy who is trying to introduce cheese to a fantasy race of nomads but has also realised he’s vastly overestimated how well he understands the mechanics behind how cheese is made”

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Same wavelength! I’ve been reading about the Spartacus slave revolt in Rome so now I’m picturing bands of catgirls roaming around with all the OP armour and weapons they picked up off their shitty masters

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I was thinking of For The Dungeon! but my vision here is that the hero is straight up invincible and the monsters are resorting to stuff like setting up cooking tournaments and games of chance, or increasingly complicated comedy skits

No but every time I use his patented “list of dumb rpg suggestions” bit he does send me an invoicr

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- revenge fantasy rpg where you’re freed catgirl slaves who go around murdering isekai heroes who think it’s okay to buy catgirl slaves because they’re “one of the good ones” - Oops All Vending Machines

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Ideas for people looking to join the isekai TTPRG wave: - players can only take terrible gimmick RPG classes and have to figure out what combo of upgrades makes them good actually - you’re all monsters in a dungeon that the overpowered hero has been grinding nonstop - slow life farming sim (horny)

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Thanks for your help! Here’s what I’ve found: - Girl Underground - This World Keeps Summoning Heroes - Many classes, few systems And: - DIE is not an Isekai - DCCarl is not an Isekai - Any TTRPG could be an Isekai, why bother - All TTRPGs are obviously Isekai already and I am a stultifying buffoon

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Thank you! I’ve been running convention games of it again and everyone picks up the humour pretty quickly. Half of the mechanics secretly double as roleplay prompts so everyone can butt their ridiculous hero protagonists into each other.

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My take on why the genre hasn’t been more popular is that isekai provokes a strong polarising reaction - when I do find forum discussions of my game, they often have devolved into discussions of what people hate or find stupid about isekai. The flipside is that people who do like it, LOVE it.

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Duffo @duffo.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I first started designing This World Summons Too Many Heroes!! as a gift for a friend who was also disappointed with the limited options for isekai TTRPGs! The LUMEN system was designed for video game-like power fantasy action, so it seemed like a natural fit.

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Great opportunity to invest early in wildly high concept RPG themed sci-fi but also in retail hell moments like this

At least 50% of that turnover was the break room door. Our manager Jerry agreed to trial a gadget that was supposed to improve staff morale, so now there was a high-tech scanner mounted over the frame. If it didn't detect a nice big smile, it wouldn't open.

Bzzt! "Come on, show us that customer smile!" it chirped as I approached.

Jerry had sent the staff a selfie of the kind of smile the door wanted to see. Several people quit immediately. Those that didn't saved it to their phone and held it up to the camera, like I was doing.

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Duffo @duffo.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Six sessions into running this Adventure Path and I’m having a great time! We’ve done gladiatoral combat, feasting contests, fought off a sea serpent, and acted out the final moments of a hero’s life with their ghost to send them to the afterlife. Great sword and sandals vibes.

Deval 『CEO of Girl Kissing』🔞 @deval.gay · 31/10/2025

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OOPS I FORGOR TO POST THE TEXT VERSION OF THE REVIEW. Anyway Here's This World Summons Too Many Heroes, by @duffo.bsky.social The Text version! #TTRPG #Review ko-fi.com/post/System-...

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Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Court overturns QLD ban on gender affirming care for transgender patients

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Duffo @duffo.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Happy to see it’s doing well!

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 26/10/2025

If you're running an RPG campaign, a great thing to do is to maintain some kind of journal of characters the PCs meet but also to give them star rankings like they were gacha game characters

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Deval 『CEO of Girl Kissing』🔞 @deval.gay · 24/10/2025

OwO a new System Check just dropped!? That's right! This week we're diving into This World Summons Too Many Heroes! by: @duffo.bsky.social If you're a fan of anime nonsense, this might just be a game for you! youtu.be/UY8cFMkwS84 #TTRPG #Youtube #review

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

SURPRISE! I had an idea on Tuesday for how to do the Perfect Space Marine RPG, so I wrote the Perfect Space Marine RPG. It's both a shitpost and a dead serious game. And it's, uh... 34,000 words long? Anyway enjoy!!! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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【OATH OF MOMENT】 An Astartes Roleplaying Game They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be...

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Duffo @duffo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

"If you’re amused by the concept of several hapless doofuses from 21st century Earth bumbling around in a medieval fantasy world with cheat powers, this might be the diversion you didn’t know you were looking for." Thanks to Chris Casey for the review! ccxp.info/game-review-...

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RPG Review: This World Summons Too Many Heroes!!: Definitive Edition | This World Summons Too Many Heroes!!

This World Summons Too Many Heroes!!: Definitive Edition (TWSTMH from now on, because I value my fingers) is a 2025 Kickstarter-funded compendium of the 2023 second edition of a 2021 RPG by Nick “Duff...

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Duffo @duffo.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Kobold With a Gun getting a lot of love, as is appropriate

Content-wise, there’s quite a bit here, a lot more than you’d expect from a high-concept comedy RPG in fact. Locations and NPCs, from goddesses all the way down to a kobold with a gun (who will shoot you, with his gun), all come with a passel of motivations and story hooks. Of all the parts of this game, I think the world as presented is surprisingly my favorite bit. It’s not always consistent, but it’s consistently entertaining. What more could you ask for really.

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Duffo @duffo.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

SomethingAwful’s FATAL & Friends forum thread has a pretty good write-up on This World Summons Too Many Heroes!! right now, including my new favourite summary of the archetypes in the game:

It’s Heroing Time!
And then he heroed all over those guys

To build your very own isekai hero, start by choosing an Archetype.
The Bystander: Whoops! You weren’t even supposed to be here today, but you were standing too close to someone else being summoned or were hit by Truck-Kun and got sucked into another world by accident.
The Demon Lord: Evil cultists summoned you here to rule the world, but you didn’t care for their vibe and you look terrible in black leather, so you dipped.
The Hero: You were brought to Ceria to defeat an ancient evil. You blew through that quest easily, of course, so now you’re just looking for something interesting to occupy your time.
The Myth: You’re never alone; there’s the spirit of a great Cerian hero or magic beast in your body. Once per adventure you can flip them in so they can wipe up the bad guys for you.
The Noble: You occupy the body of a previously existing high mucky-muck, who by all accounts was kind of a snot. Now you have to navigate their life and maybe make things better for the people around you.
The Reader: Ceria was the subject of your favorite book or video game in your past life, and you know more about it than even the people who live here.
The Reincarnated: Only your spirit arrived, without a body. Unfortunately the summoning spell doesn’t do “making a human body” very well, and you now have the form of something completely different.
Tragedeigh The Tragedy: You were summoned by someone very bad, who used you for very bad purposes. You managed to escape but now you have terrible scars and trust issues.
Each Archetype includes a choice between two special background-style benefits. For instance, the Noble can choose either Disowned Heir (get better starting equipment) or Villainess (any attempt to bully people always uses your best Attribute).

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 15/10/2025

Less than a day to go on this. We're already funded so this is basically a victory lap now, but here's your last chance to get a fun story for cheap:

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CRINGE WIZARD: A TTRPG Isekai Light Novel

A light novel about a guy forced to live through the terrible TTRPG campaign he ran when he was a teenager.

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I had a player at PAX make a minmaxed Assassin + Tricky tag build and I’m very relieved that it’s now working properly as a minion/drop farming class instead of a stunlocking angel of death

Every time I have used the phrase “affects enemies with 5 HP or less” in this book I have done so out of fear of your Powerful Aura (in-game and otherwise)

Fun fact - these notes from Chiaki pretty much directly led to the Goddesses and Season of the Sage expansions. SotS especially answers these questions about Muto while bringing back that “yearning for home” theme to reflect that he’s an old-gen 00s hero in contrast to the modern player protags

Chiaki Hirai - I feel like the whole “other churches” thing could be a bit more fleshed out, like you did on “where you can find scrolls”? Maybe a few quick examples on former churches that may have fallen out of favor, or even other gods or goddesses that think Launrith sucks.

Chiaki Hirai - And this also piques my interest in Muto, is he just really irresponsible? What drove him to think it’s cool to summon a bunch of people from other worlds in like he was done, to sow so many opportunities for chaos?

Older isekai stories used to focus on the fact it kinda sucks you get isekai’d. Part of the journey was about finding a way back. Some modern ones have this emphasis too, even if the stories these days might emphasize more on setting up maid cafes, registering at adventure guilds and saving princesses.

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Glad you’re enjoying! Just letting you know I have done TTRPGtuber interviews before 👀

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Brakka Quilltusk @brakkaquilltusk.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Thanks for your support! I hope you get to put a game together

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Y'all, I'm so excited for this book! Like, I was already looking forward to playing it some time, but now I learn one of the sample PCs is a fellow trans woman?! 😍 I NEED TO PLAY! LET'S FUCKING GO!💖🏳️‍🌈💖🏳️‍🌈💖🏳️‍🌈💖🏳️‍🌈 #TTRPGs #ttrpgcommunity #isekai #LGBTQIA2 #fantasy #ThisWorldSummonsTooManyHeroes #Vtuber

The image has the header, "SAMPLE PCS," with the character in particular bearing the title of "Megan the Finder." She is depicted as a brunette woman with a bob haircut, wearing hoop earings, circular glasses, a denim jacket, a floral blouse, & a pair of black pants. She's carrying a stack of 14 books. The text reads as follows:

Class: Mage
Archetype: The Reader (Star Stream).
Attributes: Might 2, Mastery 3, Mischief 2.
Abilities: Mana Bolt, Grimoire User, Dual Cast.
Weapon: The Finder's Index (Tome, Force).
Gift: Catalogue Search - if you know the name of a book, you can detect where the nearest copy is.

Megan had two big things to adjust to after being reincarnated into Ceria - being in a woman's body and having magic spellcasting powers. She's found tha both things suit her fine, and has even made a career for herself in the mage world tracking down rare texts and grimoires for clients by using her Gift. She's in the process of making a personal library for herself, keeping the more unusual and dangerous books somewhere she can look after them personally.

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Duffo @duffo.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Some more from the second day: - a minotaur who shouts painfully loud - Tyler Noll, The Painkiller - a vampire who makes her magic teleporting butler do everything for her - a black knight who can heal himself but only if he does a corny cheerleader dance

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★ Satra ★ @satrathai.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Look! The cuties! >w<

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Duffo @duffo.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Some isekai heroes from today’s PAX TTRPG sessions: - a healer with white girl dreads who realigns chakras so bad it hurts - a snake with rune fangs - a mum who learned karate from VHS tapes - a Sword in the Stone that has not been pulled out and just gets carried around half inside of a boulder

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Hi Chris - sorry, this was one of the things that I didn’t quite have in time for launch. The art has been sketched and is being finished now so it will be in very soon!

Here’s the full cover as drawn by @limelemons27.bsky.social! All of her previous covers for the franchise appear as artworks throughout the book too, including her art of the goddess Launrith, Sage Yuya Muto and the villainous Glitched Adventurer.

The cover of This World Summons Too Many Heroes!! with a lady knight, a short wizard in black, a catgirl in a maid dress and a short furry monster with a big backpack all outdoors on an adventure.

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Here are some of the new example characters in the game, with art from @satrathai.bsky.social! Carla is a necromancer trying to create a better world through undead labour, while Chiyo guards an ancient magical cherry blossom forest and calls on its magic to help her fight.

Double spread of a TTRPG ruleset with two characters - Carla Frei, a dark haired necromancer with a witch hat and a green tome, and Chiyo, a silver haired girl with sakura blossoms through her hair.

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